Angela Duckworth Quotes

You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed. I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.

Once I dive in, I dive in all the way.

My whole thing is if you want to do it, then do it. Kobe told me this, but he said, 'You don't wanna lay all your eggs in one basket, but you wanna lay all your eggs in one basket.' If you wanna do something and be great at it, that's what you're going to have to specialize in. Just take it and run.

When my entire focus is on training and just preparing... I just do 100-percent that and nothing else.

I use discipline and focus as my greatest weapons.

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only tto pair and a jack.

My success is due more to my ability to work continuously on one thing without stopping than to any other single quality.

The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.

You have to be un-compromised in your level of commitment to whatever you are doing, or it can disappear as fast as it appeared. Commitment cannot be compromised by rewards.

The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.

FOCUS - Follow One Course Until Successful

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

I'm an all-or-nothing kind of person, and when I become interested in something, I give it my all.

I'm in lockdown mode as far as what I want to accomplish. I don't let anything else get in my way.

Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.

Success demands singleness of purpose.

Trust me, my runners aren't going to run one event while looking past it to the second event. When they get on the line for the 10K, that's a do-or-die situation for them.

I have yet to meet anyone quite so stubborn as myself and animated by this overpowering passion that leaves me no time for thought or anything else. I have, in fact, no interest in life outside racing cars.

I think what endurance sports teach you is to stay dedicated, stay focused, and also to understand you're going to have ups and downs, but you need to keep running right through them.

If you love something, you have to stay really focused and can't let outside things distract you.

The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.

I had a pretty good career at home. What keeps you going is not having a plan B. It's a very good thing. I think if I had a viable plan B, I might not have kept going.

Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in.